Bernie's Best Moment of the Night Was Defending Hillary Against Emailgate

I agree it put him in a good light. It got him his biggest applause line of the night.

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/watch-bernie-sanders-saying-hes-tired-of-hearing-about-hillary-clintons-damn-emails/22810/

 A Bernie supporter on Huffington Post suggests this would give election to Bernie!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-hanley/bernie-sanders-won-the-de_1_b_8290498.html

I appreciate this because even a Bernie supporter thinks his salvation was in defending Hillary. But the fact that this was his best line with the best audience reaction of the night underscores the fact that Democrats love Hillary Clinton. 

I do agree though Bernie's a very good guy. I just don't see him in the Oval Office. I see her there. She has the broad focus, gravitas, and experience we need. 

I could see him as getting a cabinet post with her if that were his interest. I think Martin O'Malley could be a VP candidate for her. 

What this Emailgate moment also did was knock Anderson Cooper on his ass. Bernie was speaking for many of us in chastising Cooper. Yes, enough with the emails. 

Those were the two big losers last night:

1. Biden-not just his running but stories about him running. 

2. Emailgate. Much of the Anderson Coopers of the world want to insist this is some big, solemn issue that must be taken seriously, the Democrats in that hall certainly made their disagreement with him clear. 

John A Tures of Huffington Post:

"Vice President Joe Biden is either playing coy with his intentions, or is genuinely torn about whether he wants to run in the 2016 election. But after a good showing for all of the Democratic candidates in the first debate, the party demonstrated they don't need Biden to rescue them."

"The second biggest loser was CNN's Anderson Cooper. The moderator demonstrated the part of debates Americans don't like. Everything was an attempt to show how a candidate's views changed over time, or a plan to make the candidates start fighting each other, which never happened."

"I know there's an attempt to boost ratings, but these questions, like the ones asked by CNN of the Republicans, and even Fox News questions of the GOP, showed how both channels were more out of touch with the American people than the candidates themselves. Luckily, they occasionally let a real voter ask a question or two, which turned out to be the best of the night. The average American wants to know what the candidates will do as president in 2017, not what they did years ago, or whether they ever changed their minds or disagreed with a fellow candidate."

"The final loser was the Republican Party. More students of mine showed up to the GOP debate viewing, and more students on our campus identify as conservative, according to polls. But they were frustrated by the Republican candidates bickering at the September debate on CNN (they were more entertained by the Fox debate over the summer, but the act is wearing thin)."

"Only when Governor Chris Christie demanded the questions and answers shift to the issues did any student clap or cheer, but that was when the GOP debate was almost over. Couple those petty arguments with the House Republican in-fighting, and Democrats look like the competent ones. There's still time for the GOP to recover, but they could learn from the Democratic Party performance in the October debate."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-a-tures/the-biggest-democratic-de_b_8293844.html

That's the big difference between the parties. The GOP is about opposition to government, the Dems are about governing. Hillary is the anti Trump. He has zero experience she has the most experience and qualifications of anyone running.

I agree that Anderson was a loser and remember that he was the one who wanted to make an issue out of Emailgate and was slapped down. 

Or as Yglesias puts it:

"Anderson Cooper tried and failed to bring Clinton down."

"Anderson Cooper shares the apparently widespread view among American journalists that despite her decades in public life, Clinton is just teetering on the brink of total collapse if faced with one more personal jab."